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Information Technology News Apple still silent about DVD Jon's FairPlay hack
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 25 October 2006 | |
  
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Seven years ago, Johansen, who was just 15, successfully hacked the DRM of DVDs so that they could play on Linux. However, he claims his FairPlay hack is totally legal because the hack is not actually a hack but a reverse engineered replication of the code. In fact the native Norwegian, who now lives in San Francisco, is so confident that what he has done is above the board technology achievement, that he has founded a company called DoubleTwist Ventures that plans to license it to Apple rivals. Apple is not a company known for being shy about taking legal action to protect its intellectual property. However, since the reports about DVD Jon and his activities, the company has remained strangely silent. This may be because DoubleTwist has not yet actually sold its technology to anyone of note in the music player business. If a deal was actually struck between DoubleTwist and anyone of the ilk of Microsoft, Sony, Creative, Samsung or Sandisk, it is doubtful that Apple would stay silent. |
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